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[Blake Rouse <blake.rouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think having tag management in the WebUI would also help. Having the
ability to select multiple nodes, and add or remove a tag would be great,
and a huge time saver. It would actually remove the need from me to use the
cli on OIL, most of the time.


https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1294759


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Andres Rodriguez <
andres.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > @Andres & al. don't you think that, if you had access (through a very
>> clear
>> > call to the CLI) to the system_id of a node using its hostname, this
>> would
>> > solve your usability problem?
>>
>> Were scripts possible to write in straight Python, using a Python
>> client API, we'd make a lot of people happy. Then the CLI becomes all
>> about satisfying humans, and something like jsonpath would make this
>> even more powerful.
>>
>
> I'm not against having to write scripts using the API. I agree that the
> CLI won't solve every single problem we have out there, but at least, we
> should make sure that the basics are well supported and usable. For
> example, the only way to adding/removing tags (if not scripted) is via the
> CLI. Right, now, we basically deal with this on the daily basis and
> something that could take us 10 seconds to do, is taking us minutes. And
> this is from real user experience.
>
>>
>> Some might argue that we should also make the CLI good for scripting
>> from sh/bash, much like some might argue ridiculously that we ought to
>> inject heroin into kids to prevent them from using it.
>>
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